The First Helicopter War: Logistics and Mobility in Algeria, 1954-1962

by Charles R. Shrader

Using recently released French official documents and a variety of other sources, this study explains how the French Army, so recently defeated by the Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina, was able to successfully defeat the Algerian nationalist rebels on the battlefield, while nevertheless losing the war at the conference table. This French success, between 1954 and 1962, was due in large part to the superior logistical system of the French Army...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275963888
• ISBN13: 9780275963880
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"